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New comments are only accepted for 3 days from the date of publication. Subscriber Only. Article 16 loses power as UK negotiating tool as EU hardens approach. Science Columns. Grade inflation: lowering standards in higher education It is denied as a serious problem but could cause reputational damage. How did this happen? The Danish economist Ester Boserup upended the classical Malthusian model of agriculture in by proposing that population increase fosters agricultural innovation, which, in turn, spurs leaps in production.
Her theories have been borne out. What about overcrowding? Everywhere you go today, you find traffic jams and sprawl, with people packed into condominiums and crowded malls. But this is a problem of density, not population. There's plenty of land available out there. The problem is that people who used to live in the countryside have relocated to cities: There are fewer people living in the Great Plains today than there were in the s.
Environmental concerns are more interesting. However, such end-of-the-world warnings are not new. In the s, many scientists were concerned about a new Ice Age. But leave aside global warming, on which science is conflicted, and take the other concern principally cited by environmentalists: that the Earth has a finite supply of resources that we shall surely soon deplete. This, too, is an argument we have heard before.
As Massimo Livi-Bacci explains in his "Concise History of World Population" more than years ago, economists "feared that coal supplies would be used up, and about 30 years ago the Club of Rome made similar predictions regarding other raw materials.
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